Well, it's a NEW YEAR &amp; our first LESSOLOGY challenge for the year. And it's a BEAUTY!

I used these lollies for inspiration:

I took the bold design element in the middle, the colours &amp; the round shapes

to create this:

And yes! That's bubble wrap behind. Remember , to join in our challengesyou need to recycle or up-cycle at least one element. And the colour was just perfect. I think it works a treat!

I've also used spray ink [Adirondack] to colour the hessian:

The buttons sprinkled around the page, &amp; the anchor one here were from my stash. The wheel is from Mitra &amp; was FUSSY cut from a card -mostly with a craft knife. Challenging in the extreme! Dylusions ink coloured it nicely like the Mentos wrapper.....&amp; see? I STITCHED!!!!

The paint circles were created with an old toilet roll holder...&amp; more recycled cardboard behind the photo got a smidgen of paint as well.

Mitra might recognize this tag, too....I had some vellum anchors, but they were a dull blue, so out came the nail polish! Worked a treat - the anchor behind the tag has been cut with my Brother ScanNCut machine....

Here's a photo of the anchor's nail treatment!

So there you have it! Got a fave lolly? Eat and be inspired at the same time:)

I have been holding on to these little bird cages from the second hand store for ages! Since the July time frame to be exact. It wasn't until recently that I glued them up with two different metal candlesticks using some epoxy. I had planned on spraying them black or white and then fancying them up with some flowers. However, when I originally had posted them on my blog, someone commented on their pretty bright colors! So, I saved myself a step and just painted their bases with some gold spray paint!

I also added a smidge of gold spray at the top and used epoxy to adhere upcycled toppers. The crystal one is a knob and the gold a lamp finial. The only new items used on these bird cages are the rock star glass birds and velvet flowers. The birds were on sale at the Corning Musuem of Glass and I had to have them. They were Christmas ornaments but I took the clip off the bottom so I could snuggle them down into that deep green spanish moss.

Those gold mesh leaves were also Christmas ornaments and were hanging out at the second hand store. I wired them them on and then hot glued on those velvet petaloo flowers. Loved the peachy rose color! All these bright colors fit right in with our challenge here at LESSology to use candy colors to inspire your work!

It hasn't been acting much like winter here lately so I've got them out on display in the kitchen where I can enjoy them! They remind me of spring!

Jan 4, 2016

Well hello there friends! Hope your 2016 has been off to a good start! This month we want to see how you are inspired by the fun and bold colours of candy wrappers for LESSology Challenge #54: Candy Land. :)

Remember, you can create any type of projects you want as long as it includes at least ONE upcycled item. Please let us know what it is as it may not be apparent in your final project photo.

Here is this month's prize.

And a sneak peek at the design team's projects.

Ready to play along? Please link your newly created projected inspired by candy colours via InLinkz [located at the end of the post] by Sunday 31 January 11.55pm EST.